In response to the trend of more doctors performing procedures outside their specialty, a number of state legislatures are looking to reexamine the rules surrounding what physicians can and can't do, ...

Catherine Dower is the director for health policy and law at the Center for the Health Professions, University of California, San Francisco. Jean Moore ( [email protected]) is the director of the ...

Persistent workforce shortages continue to define the post-pandemic healthcare landscape. Hospitals, health systems, and long-term care providers report enduring deficits in nursing, primary care, and ...

Florida House Bill 449 would allow optometrists to perform eye surgeries, despite their lack of medical degrees and surgical training. Opponents of the bill emphasize the vast difference in education ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic made 2020 a trying year, one unintended benefit was that the Florida legislature allowed pharmacists to further expand their scope of practice to help patients with certain ...

As it stands, there is no statutory or centrally-backed guidance outlining how physician associates should work in general practice. Given the variety of potentially conflicting views, Eliza Parr ...

The AADA joined four other physician organizations and successfully convinced the Oregon Board of Dentistry to oppose allowing dental hygienists to administer botulinum toxins to treat conditions that ...